This is another video, again by my brother, originally on Grouper.com (was very simple to post, thanks to the WordPress/Grouper collaboration). The video clip is 3 minutes long; staring Mark and Heather; Song is “Someone else’s life,” by Joshua Radin.
A little background: Mark actually met Heather on a bench overlooking the Pacific sunset, from Santa Monica. Hence, this video is “The Other Story.”
Today is 2/23. My video on Youtube has close to 5000 views so far, since 2/10 (see it HERE).
(My interest in The Secret) + (my budding video editing hobby) + (The Secret hype) + (Oprah) + (Youtube) = (5000 views of a SparkBugg production).
OK, so all those views have not really resulted in the massive increase of traffic to SparkBugg (so I may have to have cautious expectations of any potential Washington Post referrals), but I am still grateful. Continue Reading »
I finally got my new camera in the mail: the Canon Digital Elph SD600. It comes with three manuals, so it will take some time to really get the hang of it. But for now, I took a picture of my little boy, Barkley (a six year old Shih-Tzu), and it was pretty easy to upload and get it on the blog.
I have to figure out what web service I am going to use to store all my photos (Flickr, Shutterfly, Kodak?). Continue Reading »
Thanks to Greg, a generous stranger, my visits to SparkBugg are spiking these past few hours. Five times more visits have come via Stumble than directly.
Apparently, Greg simply added SparkBugg to his Stumbles, and that somehow is leading other people to my blog. Sweet! Check out Stumble Upon if you haven’t already. Much gratitude, Greg!
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Over 2,176 hits on April 14th! How frackin’ great! It was a link to my Lamplamp posting, via B2.is. I wondered if IS was for Israel, but the comments (over a dozen of them) didn’t seem like they were in Hebrew.
Then, Clustr map showed an overnight bubble growth on Iceland, so it confirmed to me that IS is for Iceland.
The cool website UniqueDaily.com featured one of my posts (#207: the Concealed Towel Shelf), and it resulted in a massive influx of new visitors (660-680). Thanks so much! I have no idea how they found my blog.
Peculiarly, they linked to SparkBugg’s posting of the towel shelf, despite the fact that the same shelf was being featured in many other more popular blogs. Thus, I consider UniqueDaily’s link to SparkBugg.com even more fortunate.
I finally tried RSS (Real Simple Syndication). I ended up with Google Reader, and it is terrific. Like Tivo and caller ID, I am kicking myself for waiting so long to check it out.
I read a bunch of blogs as I search for Bright Ideas. With Google Reader, I just check that one website to constantly see updated postings from these blogs, in real time. No need to routinely check all the blogs to see if there are new postings. Most of the blog postings also have their images and pictures included (which was a pleasant surprise). I love it. Continue Reading »
On SparkBugg.com, I recently got this comment from a Joanna Watts: “Hi, your homepage looks really good and gives great information! Anyway, nice job. Keep it up please!!! My best wishes to you all!”
Awww, shucks. That made me feel nice inside…these countless hours spent producing my blog are worth it.
Then I got this comment from Shelley Wright: “Hi, your blog looks really good and gives great information! Anyway, nice job. Keep it up please!!! My best wishes to you all!” Continue Reading »
I have much gratitude to Kristin Pishdadi, the creator of Wiphey.com.
She was kind enough to post this comment on her blog: “SparkBugg is quickly becoming one of my favorite wordpress.com blogs. I really enjoyed this one here that has a camera & frame attached to a kite to take aerial photography.”
Her comment alone is more validating then hundreds of hits. Continue Reading »
It is hard to continue with SparkBugg. Discipline is a chronic problem for me…I can’t exercise, play the guitar, or do anything on a regular basis. But I have done SparkBugg for one year now, and recently in therapy, shed a tear of pride that I was finally able to stick with something.
But life goes one, and the pull of posting feels like an obligation. There is slight growth in readership, but nothing close to my grandiose fantasies of thousands of adoring fans. I have a few, like Luke and the Birdman, and that may be enough for now. Continue Reading »
